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10 000 Francs CFA The Council of Constance
| Issuer | Burkina Faso |
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| Year | 2014 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE DU BURKINA FASO BURKINA FASO Unité Progrès Justice 10000 FRANCS CFA |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Council of Constance, held between 1414 and 1418, resolved the Western Schism by deposing three rival claimants and electing Martin V — the first time a church council had successfully overridden a sitting pope. Burkina Faso's position as an issuer of large-format commemorative silver has nothing to do with that medieval ecclesiastical drama, of course; the coin belongs to a well-documented category of CFA-franc novelty issues produced for the European collector market, with no meaningful circulation in Ouagadougou.
At a kilogram of .999 silver struck to 100mm, the specification places it firmly in the "cabinet piece" category. The Council itself ended with the burning of Jan Hus at the stake in 1415, despite a safe-conduct guarantee — a detail that haunted Catholic-Hussite relations for the next century.